Organic Computing – Technical Systems for Survival in the Real World
Organic Computing – Technical Systems for Survival in the Real World

Author: Christian Müller-Schloer

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 2017-12-28

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 3319684779

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This book is a comprehensive introduction into Organic Computing (OC), presenting systematically the current state-of-the-art in OC. It starts with motivating examples of self-organising, self-adaptive and emergent systems, derives their common characteristics and explains the fundamental ideas for a formal characterisation of such systems. Special emphasis is given to a quantitative treatment of concepts like self-organisation, emergence, autonomy, robustness, and adaptivity. The book shows practical examples of architectures for OC systems and their applications in traffic control, grid computing, sensor networks, robotics, and smart camera systems. The extension of single OC systems into collective systems consisting of social agents based on concepts like trust and reputation is explained. OC makes heavy use of learning and optimisation technologies; a compact overview of these technologies and related approaches to self-organising systems is provided. So far, OC literature has been published with the researcher in mind. Although the existing books have tried to follow a didactical concept, they remain basically collections of scientific papers. A comprehensive and systematic account of the OC ideas, methods, and achievements in the form of a textbook which lends itself to the newcomer in this field has been missing so far. The targeted reader of this book is the master student in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering - or any other newcomer to the field of Organic Computing with some technical or Computer Science background. Readers can seek access to OC ideas from different perspectives: OC can be viewed (1) as a „philosophy“ of adaptive and self-organising - life-like - technical systems, (2) as an approach to a more quantitative and formal understanding of such systems, and finally (3) a construction method for the practitioner who wants to build such systems. In this book, we first try to convey to the reader a feeling of the special character of natural and technical self-organising and adaptive systems through a large number of illustrative examples. Then we discuss quantitative aspects of such forms of organisation, and finally we turn to methods of how to build such systems for practical applications.

Organic Computing
Organic Computing

Author: Sven Tomforde

Publisher: kassel university press GmbH

Published: 2019-04-10

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 373760696X

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This book presents the results of the OC-DDC 2018. Successful participants have been invited to extend their abstracts submitted to the event towards a full book chapter by taking reviews and feedback received at the event in Wurzburg into account. The participants prepared an initial extended abstract, helped to perform a sophisticated review process, and finally came up with interesting articles summarising their current work in the context of Organic Computing. Hence, the book also gives an overview of corresponding research activities in the field in Germany for the year 2018. The collection of contributions reflects the diversity of the different aspects of Organic Computing. In the following, we outline the contributions contained in this book.

Architecture of Computing Systems
Architecture of Computing Systems

Author: Christian Hochberger

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-07-14

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 3030816826

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2021, held virtually in July 2021. The 12 full papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. 2 workshop papers (VEFRE) are also included. ARCS has always been a conference attracting leading-edge research outcomes in Computer Architecture and Operating Systems, including a wide spectrum of topics ranging from fully integrated, self-powered embedded systems up to high-performance computing systems. It also provides a platform covering newly emerging and cross-cutting topics, such as autonomous and ubiquitous systems, reconfigurable computing and acceleration, neural networks and artificial intelligence. The selected papers cover a variety of topics from the ARCS core domains, including heterogeneous computing, memory optimizations, and organic computing.

Smart Cities, Green Technologies, and Intelligent Transport Systems
Smart Cities, Green Technologies, and Intelligent Transport Systems

Author: Cornel Klein

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-09-27

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 3031170989

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​This book includes extended and revised selected papers from the 10th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems, SMARTGREENS 2021, and 7th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems, VEHITS 2021, held as virtual event, in April 28–30, 2021. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 crisis. The 22 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 140 submissions. The papers present research on advances and applications in the fields of smart cities, electric vehicles, sustainable computing and communications, energy aware systems and technologies, intelligent vehicle technologies, intelligent transport systems and infrastructure, connected vehicles.

Human Interaction & Emerging Technologies (IHIET 2022): Artificial Intelligence & Future Applications
Human Interaction & Emerging Technologies (IHIET 2022): Artificial Intelligence & Future Applications

Author: Tareq Ahram and Redha Taiar

Publisher: AHFE International

Published: 2022-07-24

Total Pages: 860

ISBN-13: 1958651443

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Human Interaction & Emerging Technologies (IHIET 2022): Artificial Intelligence & Future Applications Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human Interaction & Emerging Technologies (IHIET 2022): Artificial Intelligence & Future Applications, August 22–24, 2022, Nice, France

Data: A Guide to Humans
Data: A Guide to Humans

Author: Phil Harvey

Publisher: Unbound Publishing

Published: 2021-01-21

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1783528656

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Data is humanity’s most important new resource. It has the capacity to provide insight into every aspect of our lives, the planet and the universe at large; it changes not only what we know but also how we know it. Exploiting the value of data could improve our existence as much as – if not more than – previous technological revolutions. Yet data without empathy is useless. There is a tendency in data science to forget about the human needs and feelings of the people who make up the data, the people who work with the data, and those expected to understand the results. Without empathy, this precious resource is at best underused, at worst misused. Data: A Guide to Humans will help you understand how to properly exploit data, why this is so important, and how companies and governments are currently using data. It makes a compelling case for empathy as the crucial factor in elevating our understanding of data to something which can make a lasting and essential contribution to your business, your life and maybe even the world.

Advanced Boolean Techniques
Advanced Boolean Techniques

Author: Rolf Drechsler

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-07-08

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 3030203239

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This book describes recent findings in the domain of Boolean logic and Boolean algebra, covering application domains in circuit and system design, but also basic research in mathematics and theoretical computer science. Content includes invited chapters and a selection of the best papers presented at the 13th annual International Workshop on Boolean Problems. Provides a single-source reference to the state-of-the-art research in the field of logic synthesis and Boolean techniques; Includes a selection of the best papers presented at the 13th annual International Workshop on Boolean Problems; Covers Boolean algebras, Boolean logic, Boolean modeling, Combinatorial Search, Boolean and bitwise arithmetic, Software and tools for the solution of Boolean problems, Applications of Boolean logic and algebras, Applications to real-world problems, Boolean constraint solving, and Extensions of Boolean logic.

Systems Aspects in Organic and Pervasive Computing - ARCS 2005
Systems Aspects in Organic and Pervasive Computing - ARCS 2005

Author: Michael Beigl

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-03-01

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 3540319670

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2005, held in Innsbruck, Austria in March 2005. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on adaptation, power consumption, and scheduling; adaptation and agents; adaptation and services; application of adaptable systems; and pervasive computing and communication.

Vision-based Vehicle Guidance
Vision-based Vehicle Guidance

Author: Ichiro Masaki

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 146122778X

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There is a growing social interest in developing vision-based vehicle guidance systems for improving traffic safety and efficiency and the environment. Ex amples of vision-based vehicle guidance systems include collision warning systems, steering control systems for tracking painted lane marks, and speed control systems for preventing rear-end collisions. Like other guidance systems for aircraft and trains, these systems are ex pected to increase traffic safety significantly. For example, safety improve ments of aircraft landing processes after the introduction of automatic guidance systems have been reported to be 100 times better than prior to installment. Although the safety of human lives is beyond price, the cost for automatic guidance could be compensated by decreased insurance costs. It is becoming more important to increase traffic safety by decreasing the human driver's load in our society, especially with an increasing population of senior people who continue to drive. The second potential social benefit is the improvement of traffic efficiency by decreasing the spacing between vehicles without sacrificing safety. It is reported, for example, that four times the efficiency is expected if the spacing between cars is controlled automatically at 90 cm with a speed of 100 kmjh compared to today's typical manual driving. Although there are a lot of tech nical, psychological, and social issues to be solved before realizing the high density jhigh-speed traffic systems described here, highly efficient highways are becoming more important because of increasing traffic congestion.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1972-10

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13:

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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.